Though sometimes we venture into lust or schadenfreude.

February 23, 2007 9:58 AM

Valleywag categorizes Mefi as pure stimulation!
posted by tula to MetaFilter-Related at 9:58 AM (46 comments total)

Cool. When all the circles converge, it creates masturbation.
posted by felix betachat at 10:04 AM on February 23, 2007

Can I bum a cig?
posted by Dizzy at 10:09 AM on February 23, 2007

...Along with Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo! and Amazon.com. wtf
posted by rxrfrx at 10:17 AM on February 23, 2007

What, you'd rather sit next to Perez?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 10:18 AM on February 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

MeFi: stimulation
AskMe: affirmation
Music: titillation
Meta: indignation

We belong at the mother fucking epicenter, bitches!
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 10:25 AM on February 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

Jobs: desparation
Projects: aspiration
posted by cortex at 10:33 AM on February 23, 2007

MeTa: indigestion
posted by Rhomboid at 10:36 AM on February 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

Music: perspiration

not all of us are naturals, you see?
posted by micayetoca at 10:38 AM on February 23, 2007

Music: vibration
posted by contessa at 10:47 AM on February 23, 2007

MeFi: stimulation
AskMe: affirmation
Music: titillation
Meta: indignation

I'm pretty sure Chris Rose is calling his copyright lawyers right now.
posted by Dave Faris at 10:50 AM on February 23, 2007

Um. Kevin Rose is, too.
posted by Dave Faris at 10:53 AM on February 23, 2007

MeFi: iNterNation
AskMe: flagellation
Music: tintinnabulation
Meta: escalation
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:55 AM on February 23, 2007

This was my favorite INXS song ever.
posted by GuyZero at 10:56 AM on February 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

Oops! "iNterNation" was supposed to be "iNterNetion"
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:57 AM on February 23, 2007

Burhanistan writes "Worst Venn Diagram ever."

No shit. They could have found the right shape for this on Wikipedia. There's no excuse for this kind of sloppiness.
posted by mr_roboto at 11:11 AM on February 23, 2007

Come with me
And you'll be
In a world of
Pure stimulation
posted by keswick at 11:18 AM on February 23, 2007

Heh, between amazon and yahoo; we suck.
posted by jouke at 11:18 AM on February 23, 2007

I sort of think of it as IMpure stimulation, but maybe that's just me.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:24 AM on February 23, 2007

That chart is stupid. There is just once circle that the entire internet falls within - "Procrastination".
posted by Pastabagel at 11:31 AM on February 23, 2007 [3 favorites]

I sort of think putting boingboing right in the middle as well-balanced internet nirvana is ... sort of ... to put it nicely ... um ... unexpected.
posted by Dave Faris at 11:40 AM on February 23, 2007

Dave Faris: you didn't know that the ultimate goal of the internet is subway anagrams, plushie toys, DRM rants and papercraft?
posted by nathancaswell at 11:53 AM on February 23, 2007

boing boing is the nexus
the average that reflects us
in a hipster funhouse mirror
through a scanner clearer
that ultimately rejects us

the filter is a shotgun
blast of culture, hate, and fun
participitory by design
inclusively inclined
not the average, but the sum
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:54 AM on February 23, 2007

This is a real fucking Venn Diagram.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:05 PM on February 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

I think it's a generally poor understanding of nirvana, since they have it as an overlap between schadenfraude, revenge, perversity, and sex. (So the Bush administration are Buddhists?)
posted by Tuwa at 12:07 PM on February 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

Not what-in-tarnation?
posted by Abiezer at 12:14 PM on February 23, 2007

Constipation: Digg it !!
posted by R. Mutt at 12:40 PM on February 23, 2007

Valleywag: not real a blog but an incredible simulation!

okay, my turn at this...
MetaFilter: Aggregation
MetaTalk: Aggravation
AskMetaFilter: Information (as in "We want information, Number 6")
MetaMusic: Orchestration
MetaProjects: Promulgation
MetaJobs: Administration

all from MetaFilter Networks Limited Liability Corporation (what, you thought the LLC stood for LL CoolJ?)
posted by wendell at 12:51 PM on February 23, 2007

schadenfraude : the phony spiteful glee of the just kidding.
posted by y2karl at 1:05 PM on February 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

Or a fair description of the former fairytale princess of Dundee, jenleigh.
posted by y2karl at 1:09 PM on February 23, 2007

Worst Venn Diagram Ever
posted by grateful at 1:20 PM on February 23, 2007

And, speaking of schadenfreude, sometimes there's nothing I like better than singing---in my best early Wayne Newton voice--

Schadefreude, my darling,
schadenfreude...

to the tune of Danke Schoen while reading some call outs in the grey.
Given the lyrics of the original and the limited rhymes for -freude, however, I've found it hard to come up with much beyond that.

Other times, I do my regular impression of Bullwinkle as Elvis impersonator--
Well, bless my soul,
What's a matter with me ?
--complete with hiccup vocal.
posted by y2karl at 1:28 PM on February 23, 2007

Good, I'm not the only one who thought that, as a Venn Diagram, it made no sense. I thought for a second there I thought I didn't understand Venn Diagrams. Would have made more sense as an x/y axis, maybe? Maybe not.

Doesn't Schadenfreude have one more syllable than Danke Schoen? (As I don't speak German, this assumption is based only on my knowledge of their respective songs).
posted by lampoil at 1:37 PM on February 23, 2007

Extra I thought. I thought I forgot I thought.
posted by lampoil at 1:38 PM on February 23, 2007

Sha-den-froy-duh.

Dank-uh-shayn.

One extra sill-uh-bull.
posted by Dave Faris at 1:39 PM on February 23, 2007

Yeah, but you can swallow the final syllable pretty well. And it's not like Wayne's rendering of "danke schoen" isn't exactly stellar German, either. Someone who didn't know better might think he just really appreciates some guy named Shane.
posted by cortex at 1:46 PM on February 23, 2007

True that.
posted by lampoil at 1:50 PM on February 23, 2007

MeFi: circumcision
AskMe: declawification
Meta: banination
posted by ericb at 1:56 PM on February 23, 2007

Sha-den-froy-duh.

Dank-uh-shayn.

One extra sill-uh-bull.

It's spring time for crunchland in Germany!
posted by y2karl at 1:58 PM on February 23, 2007

Is it bad that I took great delight in realizing that you apparently sang the word with one less syllable?
posted by Dave Faris at 2:07 PM on February 23, 2007

No, Latin is where it's at.

MetaFilter: Detritus
MetaTalk: Procella
AskMetaFilter: Auxilior
MetaMusic: Tinnitus
MetaProjects: Narcissus
MetaJobs: Mendicus
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 2:20 PM on February 23, 2007

schadenfreude, darling schadenfreude
thank you for getting so annoyed
i recall watching your downfall
your life's such a mess
when you're stressed
i confess
it's the best!
posted by sergeant sandwich at 4:02 PM on February 23, 2007 [2 favorites]

hmm. s/getting/being. sounds more like the original.
posted by sergeant sandwich at 4:05 PM on February 23, 2007

the best venn diagram evar.
posted by quonsar at 7:01 PM on February 23, 2007

quons, maybe it has something to do with the fish.
posted by wendell at 8:47 PM on February 23, 2007

Good, I'm not the only one who thought that, as a Venn Diagram, it made no sense. I thought for a second there I thought I didn't understand Venn Diagrams. Would have made more sense as an x/y axis, maybe? Maybe not.

If it were based on actual data instead of some random blogger's arbitrary choices, it would have been best represented as a series of scatterplots, each representing two ranges that varied between complimentary and conflicting with each other.
posted by davejay at 11:02 PM on February 23, 2007

NickDouglas is a member here, who used to be much more vocal. (though he commented on the 3rd of this month, related to another vallywag post) He's moved on to greener pastures, it seems. At least we got a shoutout.
posted by exlotuseater at 12:22 AM on February 25, 2007